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The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.
Back in the 1990s, when an adviser told him that non-white people could someday become the majority population in the United States, he reportedly said that would spark a revolution: “This isn’t going to become South Africa.”
During his first round in the White House, he ordered the State Department to study what he called “the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large-scale killing of farmers.” The same fantasy is again being used to justify aggressive policies against the Black-majority nation in his second term.
In February, he issued an executive order terminating all aid to South Africa, citing “unjust racial discrimination” against white citizens. Then, in March, he expelled the country’s ambassador to the U.S., Ebrahim Rasool, whom Secretary of State Marco Rubio branded (without evidence) a “race-baiting politician who hates America and POTUS.”
And now, we have the official welcoming of white Afrikaner “refugees” while simultaneously the largest deportation operation ever is being executed against immigrants of color.
Destabilization the goal
The arrival of these supposedly persecuted Afrikaners is part political performance for his domestic MAGA audience, but it’s also a tactic in a larger strategy of destabilization against South Africa.
The Trump administration is working to undermine the South African government for various reasons. Among these is the fact that South Africa has taken the Israeli government to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza….READ MORE
